Date: 1725
"The under Passions may, by their various Operations, cause some Diversity in the Colour and Complexion of the Whole, but 'tis the Master-Passion which must determine the Character."
preview | full record— Gally, Henry (bap. 1696, d. 1769)
Date: 1736
"Upon the whole, then, our organs of sense and our limbs are certainly instruments which the living persons, ourselves, make use of to perceive and move with: there is not any probability that they are any more; nor consequently, that we have any other kind of relation to them, that what we may h...
preview | full record— Butler, Joseph (1692-1752)
Date: 1745
"But thou whose eye, from passion's film refin'd, / Can see true greatness in an honest mind."
preview | full record— Brown, John (1715-1766)
Date: 1749
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
preview | full record— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Date: 1749
"Yet should thy Soul indulge the gen'rous Heat, / Till captive Science yields her last Retreat / Should Reason guide thee with her brightest Ray, / And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day; / Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, / Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright; / Should temptin...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1750
"Nor is fear, the most overbearing and resistless of all our passions, less to be temperated by this universal medicine of the mind."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Saturday, July 28, 1750
"Thus in time want is enlarged without bounds; an eagerness for increase of possessions deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulphs of insatiability, only because we do not sufficiently consider, that all real need is very soon supplied, and all real danger of its invasion easily precluded."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 1750
"Sorrow is perhaps the only affection of the breast that can be expected from this general remark, and it therefore deserves the particular attention of those who have assumed the arduous province of preserving the balance of the mental constitution."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 1750
"Yet it too often happens that sorrow, thus lawfully entering, gains such a firm possession of the mind, that it is not afterwards to be ejected; the mournful ideas, first violently impressed and afterwards willingly received, so much engross the attention, as to predominate in every thought, to ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 1750
"He must fly from himself, either because he feels a tediousness in life from the equipoise of an empty mind, which, having no tendency to one motion more than another, but as it is impelled by some external power, must always have recourse to foreign objects; or he must be afraid of the intrusio...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)